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M. E. GILFORD. Hanajrer.
Vinita Ind. Teb. Jan. 16 1896.
Do You know of any first class
position open to the man who is
addicted to the use of strong drink?
Every one is enquiring about
the news from Washington and
the average citizen confidently ex-
pects ''something to drap" most
any time.
The indications are getting
Btronger anu stronger that there
will be no intruders removed from
this nation but the chance is
pretty good that they will have to
relinquish their holdings.
According to the decision of
Watt Starr district judge those
Cherokees who have taken the oath
of allegiance to the United States
are not within the jurisdiction of
any court as the United States
refuses to try them.
Tue principal qualification and
in fact about the only one it would
seem necessary for the applicant
for a public Bchool before the
board of education at Tahlequah
was to havo voted the National
ticket at the election last August.
WrtES the delegation and Jeff
Watts met accidentally at the in-
terior department labt.week it was
not unlike the situation when two
young gentlemen call upon the
same young lady at the same time.
Watts however seems to have
had the first opportunity to talk
and didn't neglect to use it.
The committee on territories
have adopted a schedule which
operates unfavorably to Oklahoma.
It fixes Saturdays and Wednesdays
for its days of meeting and will
take up statehood bills in the ord-
er of their introduction which will
place Oklahoma last as the bills
-for the admission of New Mexico
and Arizona were introduced
first.
Tee Daily Capital at Tahle-
quah is justly indignant at the
commission appointed to meet the
Dawes commisdon for sending to
St. Louis to get their printing
done. The chances are that be
fore another six months some of
the gentlemen who compose this
commission will want the services
of the home press. It is a mighty
poor rule that wont work both
ways.
Those who oppose allotment
of lands in the Cherokee nation
have never recognized the fact that
those who favor it have as much
right to theiropinions as do others.
The fact isa very large portion of
the Cherokees favor allotment; in-
deed there are very few of our
leading men who at one time and
another have not spoken or writ-
ten in favor of a division of the
land.
Chief Mayes' letter to the pres-
ident of the United States is brim
full of good sense and ought to be
sufficient to couvince'the great fath-
er that the Cherokees have some
rights left that ought to command
the respect of Congress. Such a
plain statement of fact and figures
will not only secure the ear of the
president but may cause congress
to stop and weigh the subject
carefully.
With the Transvaal war clouds
in the east the insurgents in Cuba
and the infraction of the Monroo
doctrine in South' America to
say nothing of the outbreak of the
school board at Tahlequah we have
quite enough excitement for the
most fastidious. The report of
the Dawes commission is a decid-
edly tame affair along side of so
many other bigger and more excit-
ing things.
The Advocate prints the "Advo-
cate law" "nothing of an abufive
or partisan character thall be ad-
mitted to its columns" at the
head of its editorial page and vio-
lates it in the same issue. It hasn't
been many weeks since Waddie
Hudson asked the fraternal help
of The Caieftais in securing ihe
position he now occupies and got
it ton. Hudson ingratitude is
contemptible even in a man of
yourcalibre-
Toesday's Daily Capital at Tah-
lequah comes out in pretty strong
terms of denunciation of Secretary
Ivey. Jut what the charge against
Guslis deponent faith not but
one would infer from reading the
heading that a rape had been com-
mitted on the treasury. It is to be
hoped that the plucky little daily
will be more specific and tell it all
before letting up But the idea
that any of the school funds should
stick to Ivey's fingers will strike
the average Cherokee citizen like
a clap of thundtr out of a clear
sky(?). Of course the people have
the utmost confidence in the im-
maculate integrity of Gus Ivey.
Unlock the treasury and turn
him in.
LARGELY THEIR OTY' FAULT.
One of the most potent reasons
why the government will not lis-
ten to the representatives of the
five nations in this territory and
allow the Indian to dictate terms
in the rettlement of questions
where citizenship is involved is
simply because the Indians thein-
eelves are not consistent. Take
the Cherokee nation for instance;
the greatest question to be dealt
with is the intruder question. And
it is a fact beyond controversy that
the Cherokees themselves cannot
agree as to who are really intrud-
ers and who should be removed
from the country. If the govern-
ment were to take the list of the
so-called intruders promulgated by
the Cherokee authorities a cop
of which has been furnished the
secretary of the interior and re-
move the persons therein named
they would remove persons who
never claimed citizenship in the
Cherokee nation in their lives and
are here in the employ ot citizens
of the nation and for whom per-
mits have been if-sucd. The dele-
gation declared to the president that
they oaly wanted those removed
from the country who claim citi-
zenship and to which they are not
entitled when at the same time
they furnish him with a list em-
bracing persons for whom they
themselves have issued permits.
Can the Cherokee nation hope to
gain or hold the esteem of the
president or of congress when they
openly and knowingly make such
misrepresentations as these? If
the Cherokee nation would stick
to facts they would Ijave a fine
case to go before congress with but
when it distorts the truth it for-
feits the respect of its friend?. The
delegation has presented the presi-
dent with a list of names of per-
sons whom they are willing to go
on record as saying are intruders
when the facts are that every mem-
ber of the delegation knows to a
moral certainty that many of these
people are now in the employ of
somo of our own citizens under per-
mit issued by the authorities of the
nation. Is such action consistent?
It such warranted by the facts in
the case? Nay verrily but the
whole intruder matter is looked
upon with distrust and disapprov-
al by the president and by con-
gress for the sole reason that in
their eagerness to get somebody
ejected from the country they
have overdone the thing. The
United States is we believe dis-
poned to dispossess of the realty oc-
cupied every person in the Chero-
kee nation who can be shown to be
an intruder in tha accepted sense
of the term. If these people are
not removed from the country
bodily as per agreementthe Cher-
okees will certainly be placed in
possession of their land again so
when the final adjustment comes
there will be no intruders because
the United States government
shall have so declared. Suppose
the United Stated should go to
work and remove from the coun-
try all those who the authorities
declare are intruders and then it
would develop that many had
been ejected that never claimed
citizenship? It would be a most
embarrassing and unfortunate
affair for the nation.
GIIAXGES THAT HAVE COHE.
To eay the very least of the con-
ditions and prospects of the Cher-
okee nation and of the five tribes
in this territory there is a great
deal of unrest and uncertainty con-
nected with the immediate future.
Of late years it has become abso-
lutely necessary for each of these
Indian nations to maintain a
strong delegation of their leading
men in Washington throughout
the entire session of congress for
the purpose of fighting for
the very life of these Indian gov-
ernments. Just how long this
can be successfully kept up is a
matter of very grave conjecture
even among the Indians them-
'selves but there is one thing- very
sure: the prospects of long-continued
Indian jiutonomy are get-
ting lets and leas as the years
go by.
A few fihort years ago there were
no United States courts within the
limits of ibis territory and there
were plenty of people in those
days who were willing to say that
the United States government
could not extend its jurisdiction
over this country without the con-
sent of the Indians. liut the courts
came and have from time to time
been enlarged until now they have
well nigh absorbed our tribal
courts.
Five years ago if any one had
been so foolish as to have ventured
the assertion that even our towns
would be incorporated under Unit-
ed States laws and taken possession
of by United States citizens this
soon he would havo been put
donn as an idiot. To fully under-
stand the real drift of events
in regard to these Indian nations
and to realize that they must sure-
ly give place to a changed form of
government and to a diffcrant sys-
tem one has only to compare the
present with the not distant past.
The forces that are at work con
stantly looking to the destruction
and absorption of all tribal gov-
ernments in the limits of America
are not the caprices or fancies of
any particular school of political
economists nor of any particular
political party but the trend of
public sentiment that is governed
solely by expediency. It will not
add anything to the glory of the
United States to make a state out
of this territorj- but conditions are
such that it has in tho opinion ot
man' congressmen become abso-
lutely expedient to do so. The
anomalous condition of the Indian
Territory has doubtless attracted
more attention from the outside
world than the mere fact that it
was an Indian country undor an
Indian government.
XET RILLS INTRODUCED.
A resolution has been intro-
duced in the senate and will doubt-
less be adopted continuing the
Piatt sub-Indian committee. Sen-
ators Piatt and Higgins were here
in 1S94 and gathered a great deal
of information to them new.
A bill was introduced in the
senate on the 9th by Mr. Teller
providing as follows: That the
sum of $12000togelher with inter-
est thereon at five per centum per
annum from the first day of Janu-
ary 1S44 be and the same is
hereby appropriated out of any
money in the treasury not other-
wise appropriated to be immedi-
ately available in satisfaction of
all demands by the estate of Blu-
ford West deceased against the
Cherokee nation for compensation
or damages arising from the dis-
possession of said West by said
Cherokee nation of the property
known as the Bluford West salirc
situated in the Indian Territory
and said amount with said inter-
est thereon shall be charged
against the invested funds of the
Cherokee nation and shall be de
ducted from said invested funds.
And the secretary of the treasury
shall pay the said amount and in-
terest to the administrator of the
estate of said Bluford West de-
ceased and shall take . a receipt
therefor in full satisfaction of said
demand.
Senator Jones of Arkansas has
introduced a bill to enable the
Creek and Seminole Indians to go
into the court of claims to adjudi-
cate some financial transactions
between them.
Senator Cockrell has introduced
a bill granting right of way through
Indian Territory to the Fort Smith
branch of the Kansas City Pitts-
burg and Gulf railroad.
Mr. Teller has introduced in the
senate a bill to abolish the office of
commissioner of Indian affairs and
assistant commissioner of Indian
aflairs and to create in lieu there-
of a board of Indian commission-
ers. It provides that the presi-
dent shall appoint from civil life
two Indian commissioners to hold
office for four years and of differ-
ent political pa-ties; and to detail
an officer of the regular army to
act with the commissioners above
provided for; the pay of the com-
missioners to be 5000 ner annum.
FT. SMITH LETTER.
An Exceptionally Interesting Lot of
Court Items.
A very interesting incident took
place in the United States court
room Tueiday and. the room was
crowded For the third and last
time Cherokee Bill was sentenced
to the gallows.
John Thornton is very much
pleased with the action of the su-
preme court in granting a new
trial.
The arguments in the Davenport
appeal in the supreme court aro
assigned for the second Monday in
next term.
Judge Parker was again turned
down by the supreme court Mon-
day this time in the Frank Carver
case in which the judgment was
set aside and a new trial granted.
The opinion was by Justice Fuller.
Judg- Parker made a ruling of
great importance to the Indians
Friday. George Vann a Chero-
kee ireedman and William Hicks
were indicted for cutting timber.
Hicks set up the plea that he was
cutting under permission of Vann
a citizen. Judge Parker held that
there was no jurisdiction as to
Vann but that a citizen could not
delegate his right to a non-citizen
and that Hicks was guilty.
The Bob Hall case is one of un-
usual interest. Hall is charged with
the robbery of his father-in law
Judge Riddle of the Choctaw na-
tion of 82J00. Joe Cuner and
Bob Christian took the money
away from the old man but Cuner
says Hall planned it accompanied
them tn a point near the house
and came back and instmctcd them
how to proceed. Cuner says Hall
got the larger portion of the
money.
James Sineyard assau't; verdict
from box not guilty.
Bill Little contempt; fined $50.
He is a deputy of the Paris court
anu attempted to spirit away a
witness who was in attendance
upon court.
John UaiKcr and JJell barker
assault; verdict not guilty.
Henry Kellny larceny; same.
Ed Christopher assault; verdict
guilty.
Frank Stewart selling to Ind-
ians; plea guilty; 30 days and $100.
John Still assault; IS months.
John H. Kelley and John Smiih
larceny; verdict Smith guilty
Kelley not guilty. Smith 3 years.
George Mills mailing obscene
letter; plea guilty and fined $50.
Israel Carr murder; verdict not
guilty.
John Kingfisher violating inter-
course law; plea guilty; 30 days
and $100. 5
Willie Johnsonalias Overtonas-
sault; indictment dismissed.
Buz Lucky Frank Smith and
Henry Smith obstructing railway;
verdict guilty.
Charles Turner receiving stolen
goods; continued generally.
Bill Cook larceny of money of
United States and robbery; same.
John Dasher.Soda Fife and John
Postoak robbery; nolle prossc.
Robert Hall robbery and receiv-
ing 6tolen property; jury out.
Lato Washington Dispatches.
Following are the dispatches
from Washington to the Globe-
Democrat dated 11th:
INDIAN TERRITORY CONDITIONS.
The president is considering the
propriety of writing a letter which
will set forth his views regarding
conditions in the Indian Territory.
He wishes to correct the wrong
impression which tho civilized
tribes seem to have that he is go-
ing to stand between them and con-
gress with the veto power. A few
days ago there appeared in a ter-
ritory paper a letter from one of
the Cherokee delegates in Wash-
ington. It told ot a visit to the
white house and reported the
president as saying he would dis-
prove any legislation which sought
to change the existing Indian gov-
ernments. The letter was shown to the
president by Senator Berry of Ar-
kansas yesterday. Mr. Cleveland
promptly disavowed tho declara-
tion attiibuted to him. He said
he had told the Indians that in his
opinion the best thing for them to
do was to become American citi
zens. The president further in-
formed the senator that he had re-
quested Secretary Hoke Smith
to -ind for the Dawes commission.
It was his intention when the com-
missioners arrived to have a con-
ference with them and with tho
secretary afttr which the views of
the administration as to the need-
ed legislation would be known.
Mr. Cleveland said that he expect-
ed to be guided mainly by the rec
ommeudations of the commission.
He said that the commissioners
had made a very thorough exami-
nation of the situation and he be-
lieved that their conclusion should
be given great weight.
CHEEOKEE INTRUDER QUESTION.
By a strange coincidence the
Cherokee Indian delegation and
the "intruders' " delegation chose
the same day and hour to call up-
on the secretary of the interior.
About 10 o'clock this morning the
intruders presented themselves in
the secretary's ante-room and
about fifteen minutes later and be-
fore the intruders had secured an
audience the Cherokees made
their appearance. They looked
rather surprised on beholdingtheir
opponents' hut exchanged greet-
ing and sat down to wait. When
Secretary Smith learned that both
delegations were in waiting he
looked a trifle perplexed but fin-
ally decided to receive them both
at once and let thorn have it out.
W. J. Watts of the intruders
spoke first. He said that his del-
egation understood that the Jones
resolution calling for a suspension
of action until congress could leg-
islate had been referred to the sec-
retary and he wished to know
whether this was so. But tho sec-
retary was not giving any informa-
tion but seeking to get it so with-
out answering Mr. Watts definitely
he said to Mr. Boudinot ot the
Cherokees:
"What have you got against the
Watts people?"
"Nothing in the world" said
Boudinot "only we cl im they
aro not Indians."
"What have you got to say to
that?" asked the secretary of" W.
J. Wattn the intruders' leader.
"All I wish to say to that Mr.
Secretary" said Watts "is that
your predecessor sent a commis-
sion to tho nation to investigate
our claims to Cherokee blood and
I refer you to his report and the
decision of the United States su-
pieme court on the subject."
"I want to say" put in Mr.
Hastings the attorney for the
Cherokees "that tho Duncan re-
port does not sustain the claims of
these people to Cherokee citizen-
ship." "I say it does; it speaks for
iUelf" retorted Watts.
The secretary continued to put
pointed inquiries to both delega-
tion and succeeded in getting a
good deal of information bearing
on the dispute. At the conclusion
of the cross-examination he in
formed the delegations that they
must not conclude from anything
that occurred what his action in
regard to the removal of the so-
called intruders was to be because
his mind waB still not made up.
Tlin Permit Law.
Sec. 65S. All permits issusd
must state the particular kind of
labor to be performed whether
agricultural or mechanical and no
permit shall be issued authorizing
a citizen to hire a non-citizen to
run herd or manage cattle or as
bookkeeper clerk or managcr'of any
mercantile establishment and any
person a citizen of this nation
violating any of the provisions of
this act shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon convic-
ti' n be fined in a sum not less than
one hundred dollars nor more
than three hundred dollars and
imprisoned not less than thiec nor
more than twelve months.
The clerks of the several dis-
tricts shall not issue permit to
any persons except to "adults"
(April 10 1893) and no person
shall be authorized to employ non-
citizen laborers or farmers on more
than two places or improvements
and any person violating this pro-
vision shall be punished by im-
prisonment for any term not less
than ona year and not exceeding
fivoyeais at the discretion of the
court trying the case (November
25 1893.)
IX A THRILLING SITUATION.
llicli Water Yaras Written for "The
Chieftain."
I was so much interested in
reading that very graphic account
of high water experience copied
from a Springfield paper that I
am moved to send you these jot-
tings which I vouch for as accur-
ate and truthful for 1 got them
right from headquarters. I talk-
ed with those who were with and
witnessed some of the actors and
transactions.
A Mr. Oslen a music teacher
and composer well known ii. var-
ious portions of our territory ar-
rived at Fort Gibson a day or two
before Christmas. He had been
gone from home so long on a visit
to Alabama that he was very
anxious to get to his family in
Muskogee. He wanted to be with
them en Christmas day. He tele-
phoned to his wife to send a team
to meet him at the river bank by
1 o'clock p. m. A couple of men
at Ft. Gibson built a boat IS feet
long for the special occasion. Mr.
Oslen brought a niece with him
from Alabama a blooming dam-
sel of 16 or 18 years. Friends in
Ft. Gibson feared for them and
tried to pursuade Mr. Oslen not to
risk t but nothing would turn
him from the attempt to reach his
family with his Christmas tricks
which with books and other things
filled a big trunk and weighed 24(3
pounds. So on Christmas morn-
ing at 10 o'clock or after they
launched their frail craft on the
stormy waters and four persons
seated therein. Mr. Oslen his
niece and two men from Ft. Gib-
son who had built the boat and
agreed to land their passengers
safely on the other side of the
raging flood. These men feeling
a little skittish themselves as to
the outcome had braced them-
selves inwardly with a generous
draught of that which so many
men do imbibe to give them cour-
age and strenglh(?) They had
also the big heavy trunk worth
to him $200 or $300. Mr. Oslen
had also his largo heavy valise
and the young lady had her "best
hat" in a band box. A fifth per-
son Dr. Harris of Muskogee had
engaged passage but at the last
moment backed out an.d declined
to "take his seat" for which he
will thank his stars as long as h
lives. Just below Fort Gibson
there is an island in the river.
The party took tho west side-
where the water was not so rough
nor the current so swift as on the
east side. They made good speed
till they reached the lower end of
the island where they would come
into the main river again nnd then
and there their voyage ended for
their barge struck a log or snag of
some kind and as quick as a wink
all four people big trunk and
"best hat" were adrift in fifteen
feet of swift flood. Fortunately
and providentially all four grasped
trees or logs They were not far
from the bank and the three men
aoon pulled themselves up onto
the bank and with a pole reached
the girl and pulled her up. Mr.
Oslen hung onto his grip sack.
The whole earth was flooded and
now the next thing was to hunt a
house. And now see the four ship-
wrecked forlorn beings ah they
wade for four or five hours through
that sea of muddy waters slosh
slo3h slosh not a dry foot of
dirt did they see from six inches
deep to over head once or twice as
they came to a slough or deep
hole. Just at duk they found a
vacant house and just in the nick
of time for Mr Osier. clinging to
his gripsack all the way gave out
as they reached the yard fence and
the other two men had to help him
in. The girl who had most won-
derfully and bravely held out
through tho long and terrible or-
deal in the yard half way be-
tween the fence and the house
gave out sank in the water and
would have drowned right there
within 50 feet of shelter but all
got safely into the house.
The water had fallen a few
inches It had been up in the
house and the floor was two inches
deep in soft mud. A forlorn be-
draggled company no place to sit
or lie down tired exhausted half
famished for they had not a bite
since morning One of the men
had bethought himself and had
put some matches in his hair on
top of his head under his hat and
they built a roaring fire. They
demolished a shed of some kind in
the yard and used it for fuel. They
took off a door and put it down to
stand on.
The house had been abandoned
only a day or two and they found
egg- butter and a littl milk.
They found cooking uteusils
they found some corn which they
parched and ate. They found in
a hog pen six big fat hogs all
drowned and cut from one's ham
some generous slices and cooking
had ham and egg parched corn
butter and milk and so they did
not starve. Mr. Oslen opened his
grip and found his clothes not en-
tirely ruined The girl took a
pair of pants put them on took
off her own clothes and dried them
by the fire and so in the morning
she put on her own clothing and
was notrin as bad a plight as might
have been supposed. In the morn-
ing tho men yelled lustily and
help came in a skiff and all went
to a house on dry land out of the
water. Tho two men made their
way to Gibson.
Mr Oslin got the man in skiff to
go with him and found his eigh-
teen foot boat lodged near where
left the day before; they raised it
and bailed it out fished up his big
trunk and he went on across the
Arkansas river sold his boat for
two dollars which ho sent back to
the Gibson men and so he got to
his family not on Christmas day
with all his nice gifts in good con-
dition but the day after a sadder
hut a wi-sor man and with a loss
of over $200.
The girl stayed a day nr two
and rested then came to Wagoner
and on to Muskogee She had her
uncle's pants with her. She did
not have them exactly in the pame
manner that she did that night
but she carried them rolled up un-
der her arm.
This o'er true tale would be in-
complete if I failed to state how
she reached Muskogee. She ex-
pected to see her uncle as she got
off the train. An utter stranger in
a strange land she was a little
nervous and excited and her uncle
not being in sight she did not
know what to do when she caught
sight of Dr. Harris who had reach-
ed home in safety and before she
could control herself she sprang
to him and just hugged him then
and there she was so glad to see
a friend. The good doctor was go-
ing to take her to his home when
the uncle appeared on tho scene
and the curtain drops.
I. B. H.
The Incorporated Town of Wagoner.
Wagoner is a municipal govern-
ment with full-fledged authority
to make laws collect taxes to sue
and be sued. Judge Springer last
Saturday by order of his court cro-
ated tho incorporated town of
Wagoner under the statutes ot Ar-
kansas Mansfield's Digest chap-
ter 29 part 1 which the court
holds to be applicable to the Ind-
ian Territory. Judge Springer
has before this incorporated the
town of Miami which is a townsite
in the afiiiiiated tribes owned by
a non-citizen townsite company
and the land is individual prop
erty. Wagoner is the first instance
in the Indian country proper that
incorporation has been effected.
Saturday a plat of the town to-
gether with a long list of petition
ers praying for the incorporation
was presented in open court and
Judge Springer issued the incor-
porating order to J. D Freeman
Rudolph Howerton Wilhan Jack-
son Sam Powell and F. E. Smith
in behalf of the petitioners. The
powers of the incorporated town
of Wagoner are defined as follows:
Ordered that said town of Wagoner
shall be and is hereby declared a
body politic and corporate under
the name and style of the incorpor-
ated town of Wagoner capable
to sue and be sued to contract and
be contracted with to acquire
hold and possess property to have
a common seal and to change and
alter the same at pleasure and to
exercise such other powers and
privileges as arc incident to cor-
porations of like character or de-
gree not inconsistent with chap-
ter 29 division 1 of Mansfield's
digest of tho statutes of Arkansas
as adopted by congress approved
fMay2 1S90.
the boundaries of the town are
as follows: 'Initial point being the
center of the crossing of Main and
Cherokee streets in said town
thence due west one mile thence
due north one mile to point of be-
ginning of said boundary line
thence due east two miles thence
due south two miles thence due
west two miles thence due north
to place of beginning.
The case may come up again
within thirty days to hear contests
against the order Muskogee
Phoenix.
General Harrison ou the Presidency.
Ex-President Benjamin Harri-
son will discuss "the presidential
office"very comprehensively in his
"This Country of Ours" series in
in tho forthcoming February
Ladies' Home Journal. He will
detail the provisions and methods
of electing a chief magistrate and
will have much to say bearing up-
on the eligibility of a president
for re-election; will give his views
as to the length of the presidential
term and express rather decided
opinions relative to the annoyance
to which presidents arc subjected
from office seekers. The article is
practical based upon experience
and observation and is very time-
ly. General Harrison believes
that the fears (expressed by the
framers of our constitution) that
the power of the offico is such as
to enable an ambitious incumbent
to secure an indefinite succession
of terms have never been realized.
"In practice the popular opinion
has limited the eligibility of the
president to one re-election. But
some of our leading and most
thoughtful public men have chal-
lenged the wisdom of the four-
year term and have advocated six
year usually accompanied with a
prohibition of a second term. And
unless some method can be devis-
ed by which a less considerable
part of the four-year term must be
given to hearing applicants for of-
fice and to making appointments
it would be wise to give tho presi-
dent by extending the time a bet-
ter chanco to show what he can do
for the country. It must be ad-
mitted also that ineligibility to a
second term will give to tho execu-
tive action greater independence.
It seems unlikely however that
any change in the presidential
term will be made unless some un-
expected event should stir into
action a thought that is now of a
theoretical rather than a practical
cast."
For tho information of our read-
rs we will state that the clerk law
will go into full force and effect on
tho 14th day of March 1S96. There
is only one obstacle that will inter-
fere with this law and that is dis-
trict clerks may legally issue per-
mits for one year before the law
becomes effective. Tahlequah Ar-
row. .TRY THE
0. K. Meat Market
For Fresh Meat of all
kinds; prices lo suit
the time.
Will Sell Steak Tuesdays
and Saturdays at 5 cts.
Fresh Broad
Daily.
J.J.COYNE
AN IDEAL FAMILY MEDICINE
For IadlfftltB. jiiuvMeM
lldcbr CwitlpSlln list
Campleslo. Offenilve itreath
and ail disorder of the Stomach
Urermnd Dowel.
R'PP'A-N'8- TABULES
met crentlj jrt promptly rtrfect
digestion follow their dm bold
fcjdnjffirtJt or sent Ly malL pp 1
HUA CH EM 101. CO..l08prneeUlW
Say its a cold clay but
S. CUMMING
D.
...WILL SELL YOU...
Good Heating Stoves.
Do you ever get hungry? If so come to Adair
Ind. Ter. and get one of
D. S. Cumming's Best Cooking Stoves
and be happy. Prices so cheap for cash only.
Shelf Hardware Tinware Implements Harness Fur-
niture and Coffins all at prices which cash
only make it possible to give.
Special Bargains in
Olivek Baoby E. N. Ratcxift H. C. Cook
President. Vice-President. Cashier.
First National Bank
VXNTTA ESTD. TEB.
CAPITAL STOCK $50000.00.
SURPLUS rStf:"4 $26000.00.
"STo-ux Business Solicited.
DIRECTORS:
S. S. Cobb Oliver Bagby B. F. Forlner G. W.Beck
E. N. Ratclifl M. E. Milford W. A. Graham
A J. 0. Hall W. E. Halsell
S'VWtlVWtVVViV
G. W. MILLER & CO.
Successors to H. D. MUIR & CO.
General Insurance Agents.
Patton Building. Vinita Ind. Ter.
Kepresentlnjr the following Companies:
FIRE AND TORNADO.
Ilanfonl Intnranca Co.. Hartford. Conn. German AmtrIcnIntnrancCo..ofNwTork.
Phoanlx Insurance Co.. of Brooklyn. Pennsylvania Flra Insurance Co.
Llvemool A London & Globe Insurance Co. London and Lancashire Insurance Co.
New York Underwriters. Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Co.
Fire Association or Philadelphia.
LIFE
The Phoenix Mutual Life Insuranco Co. of Hartford Conn.
ACCIDENT AND PLATE GLASS.
The Fidelity and Casualty Co. or New York.
JOSEPH HOT
POSTOFF1CE
VINITA IND.
Hardware Implements and Machinery. -J
SPECIAL FIGURES AND GRADES OF.BUGGIES
SURUIES AND ALL SPRING
VEHICLES
tWFine Line of Groceries in CnnnpnUnn
WE WANT
Indian Chief tain.
And will always make
some offer to encourage
and compensate our
friends.
There is not a man or woman boy or girl in
Cherokee Nation who cannot secure
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under one of the following
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will give YOU credit for one year's free subscription.
If you are already a subscriber to begin when your
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